Yoko Ono Quotes

#1. Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

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#2. The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.

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#3. People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

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#4. We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

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#5. I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

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#6. I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

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#7. The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

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#8. The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

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#9. My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

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#10. To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

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#11. There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself.

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#12. Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

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#13. You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.

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#14. I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

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#15. The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

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#16. Music is like my security blanket.

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#17. When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too.

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#18. Some people are saying there's going to be a third World War. I hope not. I really think this is a time that people can start to mend things by negotiations, dealings. We know about dealings, don't we? We have brilliant lawyers. Why don't we have brilliant lawyers standing up and working for peace?

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#19. Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

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#20. The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

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#21. Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

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#22. Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works.

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#23. When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

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#24. Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

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#25. I love to work. Doing things we love is how we relax, I think.

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#26. Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.

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#27. When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

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#28. I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

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#29. Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.

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#30. Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

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#31. People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

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#32. Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.

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#33. Listen to the sound of the earth turning.

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#34. Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.

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#35. You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.

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#36. I trust myself. You need that to survive.

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#37. When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

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#38. The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

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#39. Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

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#40. Life with another person is always difficult.

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#41. People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

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#42. Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

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#43. I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

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#44. If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others' cities up in the night in pinks and greens.

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#45. Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

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#46. My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

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#47. One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

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#48. When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.

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#49. What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

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#50. I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

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#51. Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

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#52. My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.

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#53. The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

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#54. We're all water from different rivers,
That's why it's so easy to meet,
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean,
Someday we'll evaporate together.

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#55. Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in

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#56. Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

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#57. We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.

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#58. Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

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#59. You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.

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#60. My beauty secret is ... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.

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#61. To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it.

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#62. I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

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#63. There are things you can never take, no matter how strong you are.

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#64. But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

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#65. My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

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#66. Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.

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#67. Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile

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#68. Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

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#69. John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.

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#70. There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

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#71. I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women.

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#72. It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.

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#73. John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

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#74. Be silent in a group of people
See what they reveal to you.

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#75. I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies.

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#76. It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.

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#77. In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There's no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.

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#78. I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

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#79. I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

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#80. People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

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#81. When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile.

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#82. The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

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#83. Faces can lie. Backsides can't.

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#84. I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

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#85. All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.

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#86. Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.

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#87. Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

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#88. There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

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#89. The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

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#90. If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

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#91. Being alone is very difficult.

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#92. If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

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#93. Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.

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#94. Art is my life and my life is art.

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#95. Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.

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#96. The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.

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#97. You change the world by being yourself.

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#98. In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

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#99. Have the courage and strength to be yourself.
Because there is no other choice.
Do you have a choice of being somebody else?

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#100. I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

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